(j3.2006) Fwd: BOZ incompatiability in Fortran standards

[Van Snyder]

On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 21:29 +0000, Bill Long wrote:
> (Why haven?t we made DATA obsolescent, yet??)

Because it's a pain in the tusch to make a 600-line named-constant
definition, no matter whether you're creating it as the ultimate
objective or as the initializer for a variable, but DATA statements can
do it a little bit at a time.

To make a really large array named constant, you need to invent names
for sub-arrays that will fit within the maximum statement size limits,
and then combine those into bigger (sub) arrays, and ... and ultimately
create your array.

I did propose during the F03 development that the statement line limit
ought to be 9999, but that was shot down.